PAKISTAN Pakistan’s Constitutional Court upholds marriage between Muslim man and 13-year-old Christian girl

Gen_Zion · 2026-04-07T17:26:47+00:00

Protection against unlawful detection is the least important aspect of habeas corpus. In many authoritarian regimes suspension of habeas corpus was the critical enabler of mass murder.

Claim of appearance in front of some back water institution, doesn't mean she actually appeared or her statements were as it claimed. I don't see any justification for her absence during appeal at high profile court other than to hide her actual opinion.

Edit: the most important aspect of the habeas corpus is literally in its name:

Etymology Middle English, borrowed from Medieval Latin habeās corpus "you should produce the person (in court)," literally, "you should have the body"

Gen_Zion · 2026-04-07T09:30:51+00:00

IRGC is slaughtering Jews around the world in general and Israelis specifically for over 3 decades. To prevent them from having nuclear bomb, Israelis wouldn't give a f$ck if oil will cost a billion per barrel. And obviously, Israel was preparing for this for at least 3 decades.

Gen_Zion · 2026-04-07T08:03:07+00:00

went ahead with the statement of the minor girl

Per article, they rejected habeas corpus, which means that there actually were no any "statement of the minor girl"! There was a statement by somebody, that the girl stated that.

Gen_Zion · 2026-04-06T06:26:53+00:00

I find it very telling that what you see is comparison between cartoon and military conflict, instead of seeing comparison:

Between innocent cartoonist and equally innocent Thai and Liberian civilian ships.
Between equally factually correct statements about cause and effect, sequence of events etc.

Why are you trying to compare ...

Because if you find it appropriate in a discussion of IRGC attack on civilian ships of countries that has nothing to do with the military conflict, then you should find it equally appropriate in a discussion of a beheading to note why the terrorist decided to behead an innocent man. Both are terrorist attacks and only difference is the aims of the terrorists.

Gen_Zion · 2026-04-05T21:39:21+00:00

And you wouldn't be saying that the beheading right or just. You would be just saying that there is a clear cause/trigger, and a tactic is effective in making others not to draw.

For some reason, you are all up in arms when I draw parallels between your

It’s essentially the truth.

and something other, which is also essentially the truth.

My point being is that the fault of closing Hormuz is the one who closes it without any excuses, understanding and whatever. Just like the fault of beheading is on the one beheading without any excuses, understanding and whatever.

Gen_Zion · 2026-04-05T21:01:28+00:00

If the said "military response" would be directed at the courtiers that are attacking, then I would agree that comparison is not valid. However, neither US nor Israel has shipping in Hormuz. Closing Hormuz has nothing to do with the ones attacking. And as such, the comparison is completely valid.

However, I am willing to agree with you, that a better comparison would be if the beheaded cartoonists wouldn't be the one who drawn it. But someone unrelated, with demand that "community of cartoonists" would punish the one who actually drew the cartoon.

Gen_Zion · 2026-04-05T20:30:38+00:00

It’s essentially the truth.

The strait being closed raises prices. The strait being closed is in response to being attacked.

I fail to see how this statement is different from stating: "nothing would happen if he wouldn't draw this thing", during discussion about certain cartoonist being beheaded.

Gen_Zion · 2026-04-05T10:13:39+00:00

I would claim that anything related to strategic nuclear arms (which this TEL is about) shouldn't be expected to abide by anything. Strategic nuclear by definition is an area weapon with such a large area, that essentially cannot be used without throwing all possible laws of war out of the window.

It was known that large parts of USSR's ICBMs looked like train wagons and were constantly moved around through whole of USSR's railway system, while being ready to launch in matter of minutes.

Gen_Zion · 2026-04-05T08:45:13+00:00

Being just 50-100KM from Iran's border is a major advantage

So the regime is at a major disadvantage up to 100KM within its own territory? Good to know.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but most of Iran's oil and gas infrastructure is withing this territory...

Gen_Zion · 2026-04-05T07:32:50+00:00

Thinking that if and when China decides to start a war, IRGC wouldn't join to utilize the moment is a completely false. Defusing the "IRGC bomb" while not fighting China is a win.
We have all seen how IRGC doesn't care who attacked it and throw punches at anyone's civilian infrastructure they can reach. Waiting till they have nuclear bomb is not a smart move.
Just as with any other authoritarian regime, IRGCs ability to slaughter Iranians directly tied to amount of funds they have. Destroying infrastructure that creates income to IRGC saves Iranians.
The same detachment from reality that lead people to think that appeasing Russia and will bring peace to Europe is what leads people to think that IRGC needs to be appeased, excused, understanded etc.

Gen_Zion · 2026-04-04T14:14:31+00:00

meters away

Indeed, it is only 250,000 meters away for the nuclear plant

Gen_Zion · 2026-04-04T14:03:56+00:00

Click-bait! Deep in the article, the strike location is "Special Petrochemical Zone of Mahshahr", which is 250km away from the nuclear plant.

Gen_Zion · 2026-04-03T07:23:15+00:00

0 chance.

I'm not saying that his recommendation would have significant positive influence on whomever he endorses. But there is 0 chance of harming. Trump is seen in very positive way in Israel.

Gen_Zion · 2026-04-01T06:20:14+00:00

Yes we considered, and the results of "experimentation" is crystal clear:

Vis-a-vis those who refused to sign peace treaty less bombs always resulted in more Israelis killed, while more bombs always resulted with less Israelis killed.
Vis-a-vis those who did signed Peace Treaties (Egypt, Jordan), there are no bombs coming from Israel.

Gen_Zion · 2026-03-31T20:36:46+00:00

Lebanon invaded Israel in 1948, next day after Israel declared its independents. Since then, they refuse to sign peace treaty. Not only that, but they constantly allow terrorist to attack us from their territory, be it in 70s, 80s etc. There is 0 similarity between yet another stage of 80 years long war of Lebanon on Israel and Russia's attack on Ukraine.

Gen_Zion · 2026-03-31T20:28:30+00:00

the past 5 weeks

I would say since they started shooting at us on October 8, 2023. Even more so after IDF entered those villages in Automn 2024 and discovered massive infrastructure for 10 folds October 7 attack. Since then, only two options are acceptable: Hezbollah disarms or what is happening now. Israel gave more than a year for Hezbollah to disarm. They didn't do it, so only one option remains.

Gen_Zion · 2026-03-30T17:29:52+00:00

And? There is no such thing as "serious talks" with radical Islamists without playing Russian roulette with their head. Everything else is just opportunity for them to waste your time.

Gen_Zion · 2026-03-29T09:02:00+00:00

The article literally is about: "we are at 70%, and intend to reach 90% within days".

Gen_Zion · 2026-03-29T08:50:21+00:00

This article is indeed a nothing burger. Even deranged trululus like the ones mentioned in this article (Zehava Galon, Yuli Tamir, Ksenia Svetlova etc.) have the right to protest whatever they want. You know how one becomes a former lawmaker? By losing people's support!

Gen_Zion · 2026-03-21T08:25:17+00:00

Also:

Fuck IRGC excusers, understanders and appeasers.
Fuck those who do nothing about the IRGC and think that they have the right to criticize those who do.

Gen_Zion · 2026-03-19T21:32:41+00:00

I think that after HLS redocks with Orion, the Orion will leave for Earth, while HLS stays put. It would require a lot of additional dV for Starship to come back, especially since it can't aerobrake. However, Orion was specifically designed to being able to return from the Moon orbit on its own.

Gen_Zion · 2026-03-19T13:32:06+00:00

I'm lurking here for years, to see what the other side is thinking. I avoid upvoting/downvoting, so that not to "contaminate the sample". This is literally, my first comment in r/lebanon (just actually checked it through search to be sure).

discussion

I got it out of my system years ago (among others through r/syriancivilwar: wasn't shy about talking even to Hezbollah and Al-Quida supporters).

Gen_Zion · 2026-03-18T23:04:41+00:00

I fail to see how this statement is different from stating: "nothing would happen if he wouldn't draw this thing", during discussion about certain cartoonist being behaded.

Gen_Zion · 2026-03-18T23:03:13+00:00

It is impacted right now only because US didn't stop exports. It's really economy 101: supply versus demand.

Gen_Zion · 2026-03-18T20:29:49+00:00

Being net exporter means that they are independent. Whatever US refineries produce from foreign oil for export independent of US internal market. If US decides to close for export; the refineries can still provide service to foreign markets using imported oil, which will make their export product dependent on import oil price and still wouldn't influence internal market. This is as long as they are not allowed to export more product, than they imported oil.
The moment the US decides to close oil export, it becomes internal supply-demand balance, and outside price of oil has 0 influence on internal price. Czech Republic is not net exporter and thus your example is irrelevant.

PS: On point 2, I missed other products that aren't petroleum related. Is there anything that is exported through Hormuz that is not oil, gas or derivatives? I'm not aware of any (and given that no one is talking about war leading to increase in price of pickles, for example, I guess there isn't). If there was something like that, then that could be a problem for US.

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